Right wing kooks using the word woke is actually pretty funny. The rest of us are just out here thinking that perhaps everyone should be able to live with a modest amount of dignity and these dudes think it’s some magic spell we’re chanting.
Fuggen’ “wokeism” kills me every time! What on earth does that mean to them??
They can't even define it. Remember the author who wrote an entire damn book about wokism, and she couldn't even define "woke" in a live interview for which she had ample time to prepare.
I'm starting to think their brains are wired differently. They don't think, they just react to stimuli.
It's not that these people can't define "woke" it's that they do not ever want to admit (either out loud or just to themselves) they are racists or complicit in being assholes to entire groups people. The word "woke" is the wallpaper that can never be peeled back for exposing the mirror behind it.
Tragically in this case, ignorance is not bliss, but an IV drip of manufactured rage.
Link to the video? That sounds hilarious
https://pi.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=W7iWEEcPKoQ
After the interviewer tells her to take her time, she still can't explain it
And the thing is, it was such a basic/softball question about the entire premise of her book lmao
Lmao what a fumble! She even knew immediately that this would go viral. Also the only explanation she actually managed to give is complete horseshit. Wokeism is wanting to create hierarcies of oppression? Bitch that's what we're trying to get rid of 😂
Oppression is when people are mean to me when I say racist and transphobic things
I just thought it was the evolution of the social justice warrior pejorative.
Look at this SJW, complaining about cops shooting civillians without trial.
They don't know, they just want some "ism" of their own to throw at the people calling them out for being the racist, sexist, and homophobic fascists that they are.
Even that joke he stole from someone else and made it worse.
Like his wealth, which he did not meaningfully earn, but still gets to use, benefit from, and control.
IMHO, that dork hates wokeness because it's a movement of human to human empathy, and you can't have a compassionate society and billionaires at the same time.
One of the things I hate most about Musk is how he thinks he's funny.
That’s the thing about humor. It’s subjective.
Except Musk's jokes are objectively shit.
I really dislike Musk and cannot help but cringe at most of what he says whether attempting to be funny or not.
That being said, I do think humor is subjective. Say hypothetically I was with my eleven year old nephew and the car radio was talking about inflation. If from the backseat I heard him say inflation blah blah 420 blah 69, I would absolutely find it hilarious.
Musk doing the same thing on a social media site which has been ruined under his stewardship is just truly pathetic.
That’s fair. His humor is stunted and situationally inappropriate as well as far less clever than he thinks. He’s a middle aged deadbeat father making dirty jokes that are fine for a 14 year old to a crowd of everyone while lecturing about how other people aren’t funny. I would expect more clever sex jokes from an 18 year old in the context. And there is no added component of “lol I’m immature here”.
Good to know he’s also confidently incorrect about humor theory.
If humor required some intuitive truth then entire genres of comedy wouldn’t work including absurdism, surrealism, and most wordplay.
Also some of the funniest shit I’ve ever heard relied on “wokeism”. There’s a lot of dark humor in struggling against bigotry.
Elon musk is that kid who thinks he’s bullied for being a nerd when hes actually being mocked and not included because he’s a bigoted asshole whose idea of humor comes from 4chan
My understanding is that being 'woke' is just kind of not being an asshole to people.
Elon is basically saying, it's funnier to be an asshole to people.
Here's a tip. Don't be an asshole to people. The joke is never worth it.
Woke is not a new term.
"Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".
But yeah, that usually comes along with not being a jerk to people.
My friend said some stuff about "wokeness" the other day but when I explained the origin (which I described as simply being aware of the many injustices of the system) he paused and said, "...shit, I guess I'm woke"
So according to Musk, you’re only funny if you’re racist?
That tracks
Has changed over the years though. Today it’s probably more like “anything which does not adhere to a strict conservative Christian nationalist agenda” which includes but is not limited to awareness of racial injustice.
What a loser lol
So… Elon is woke?
Elon is a lie?
Elon is a loser.
Downvote Musk spam
We should remind Elon Musk about his inflation tweet.
Tell him to search for Elon Musk Inflation.
Can you stop circle jerking random Musk bullshit. I already block like 5 different subs to try and get away from it.
See if your lemmy client lets you block arbitrary strings so these posts get hidden automatically, wherever they are from.
Bigoted asshole is bigoted.
Hahaha very funny Mr Musk! Please raise my salary so I can feed my family. Very good joke hahaha!
Billionaires that can't even keep a marriage going make me feel pity for them.
Honestly my life is irredeemable and an unremarkable small pile of lukewarm garbage.
But I look down at Bezos, Musk, et. al. The ability to recognize when one has enough is a basic quality of humans.
Piss tier memes, lower than shitposts. Brain damaging stuff.
